On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:38:06PM -1000, Dave Burns wrote:
What makes you think NIS is involved?
Is Errno 12 a clue? I tried searching for (do_ypcall: clnt_call: rpc: timed
"do_ypcall" is a NIS error message. (Previous NIS was called "yellow pages"; the "yp" in do_ypcall is a reference to that).
Maybe you have "hosts: files nis" in /etc/nsswitch.conf or something else that's causing the OS to want to talk to NIS.
You _DO_ have a problem with your NIS setup somewhere.